--- title: "#198: The Node.js Foundation's Survey Results" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 198 published_at: "2017-07-27" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/198" --- #198: The Node.js Foundation's Survey Results This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/198) Node WeeklyJuly 27, 2017 #198 Node.js Foundation [Node Emerging as a Universal Development Framework](https://medium.com/@nodejs/node-js-emerging-as-the-universal-development-framework-for-a-diversity-of-applications-c2e788290f5f)The results from a global survey on Node usage are out. They paint a picture of the technologies being used with Node, language preferences, and preferred production and dev environments. Kent C Dodds [How Writing Custom Babel and ESLint Plugins Can Increase Productivity](https://medium.com/@kentcdodds/how-writing-custom-babel-and-eslint-plugins-can-increase-your-productivity-and-improve-user-fd6dd8076e26)Kent explains that creating your own plugins to improve your development processes is a very approachable and productive activity. John O'Nolan [Ghost 1.0: The Node Blogging System Gets a New UI and Editor](https://blog.ghost.org/1-0/)4 years after its initial launch on Kickstarter, Ghost has grown into a very popular Node-based blogging system. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost). Cloud 66Sponsor [Kubernetes: Orchestrate your Node.js (micro)services](http://blog.cloud66.com/scaling-your-nodejs-microservices-with-kubernetes/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cop&utm_campaign=cooperpress-july-17)Tips on how Kubernetes can help with scaling your Node.js application and start breaking down the monolith into microservices. [![Cloud 66\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/b0f9cf39.png)](http://blog.cloud66.com/scaling-your-nodejs-microservices-with-kubernetes/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cop&utm_campaign=cooperpress-july-17) Samer Buna [Scaling Node.js Applications](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/scaling-node-js-applications-8492bd8afadc)A ton of things you need to know about Node’s built-in tools for improving scalability. Daniel Khan [What To Know to Really Understand Node's Event Loop](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/what-you-should-know-to-really-understand-the-node-js-event-loop-and-its-metrics-c4907b19da4c)How the event loop really works and how to monitor it properly, along with some common misconceptions. Ferenc Hámori [What Node.js Is Used for in 2017: Survey Results](https://blog.risingstack.com/what-is-node-js-used-for-2017-survey/)An alternative look at the results of the Node Foundation’s global research (mentioned above). In Brief - [Node v8.2.1 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.2.1/) news Node.js Foundation - [Nodevember 2017 (Nov 27-28 in Nashville, TN) Call for Papers](https://www.papercall.io/nodevember-2017-cfp) news Proposals can be submitted until August 1. Nodevember - [Full Stack Fest 2017 - Barcelona, 4-8 Sept. Discount code: NODEWEEK](https://2017.fullstackfest.com) news Full Stack Fest BarcelonaSponsor - [An Easier Way to Authenticate Users in E2E Tests](https://hackernoon.com/an-easier-way-to-authenticate-users-in-e2e-tests-230d86071f48) tutorial Alexander Moskovkin - [Uploading Images to a Node.js Backend Using Multer and Express](https://alligator.io/nodejs/uploading-files-multer-express/) tutorial [Multer](https://github.com/expressjs/multer) is an image upload library. Alligator.io - [Set up a Netflix style streaming service with Node.js](https://bitmovin.com/encoding-documentation/encoding-api/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nodeweekly) tutorial Cloud or On-Premise encoding solution on Kubernetes and Docker. MPEG-DASH, HLS, VP9, HEVC, Multi-DRM, VoD or Live. BitmovinSponsor - [How DIRECTV Moved Over to Using Node in Production](https://modernweb.com/innovate-enterprise-organization/) story Nathan Collier - [A Tour of Node's File System Module](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL1UEcDHVPjkGjqM4mvAb2z9meV7jWmbd) video A series of 7 videos exploring the capabilities of the `fs` Module. Duly Bonheur - [Using MySQL With Node](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN6Dx22cPRIa=) video A 26 minute screencast of using MySQL from an Express app. Traversy Media - [Numeric Computing with Node.js](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYF_pJI93tc) video Athan Reines - [16 Plugins to Extend TestCafe's Functionality](https://medium.com/@krylovanatu/14-plugins-to-extend-testcafe-functionality-82096fc3f334) tools [TestCafe](https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe) is a popular end-to-end testing tool. Natu Krylova - [Catch Errors Before Your Users Do 🎣](https://rollbar.com/nodeweekly) tools Instantly know whats broken and why. Monitoring, alerting and analytics for Node.js errors. Try Rollbar free. 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